Greetings All,
I hope you had a great New Year celebration, now get out from the holiday mode and ready for your awesome 2010.
Let’s start our first 2010 MBA digest with recap:
* Is Affiliate Marketing Right for YOU
* How to Make a Successful Blog Even in a Saturated Market
* Start to Optimized Your Blog
* How to Become a Successful Media Buyer
* 22077 Spam Comments Caught by Akismet
It’s already the 12th of January. Do you have your “action plan” ready for making this year your BEST YET? And have you started IMPLEMENTING the steps that will get you there?
If your inbox looks anything like mine, it’s a dizzying around of slam bam better-than-ever-before
offers, you need to think twice before you click that ‘buy’ button otherwise you will lose your way easily. What I saw is some of those offers are made from a great swipe files from previous ones.
However, if you didn’t have the 2009 you wanted to…
You CAN’T blame the economy.
You CAN’T blame it on your competition.
And you CAN’T blame it on your market.
You can only blame the person you see when looking in the mirror each morning.
As we all know, the Internet has leveled the marketing playing field! Before a home computer became standard equipment for the most households, a little “mom and pop” operation out in the brick and mortar world had no chance of competing against much less WINNING against giant multi-national companies. But now they can. The Internet provides the ultimate “equal opportunity”. All we have to do to win is take advantage of the opportunity offered by applying winning marketing strategies.
So don’t be too hard on yourself because there IS something you can do about it.
If you’re a greenhorn trying to learn the ropes but you can’t make heads or tales of all the promises, claims, screen caps and gurus who pound you with emails. If you’re really serious about online marketing business, probably already making sales, maybe a lot of them, and you’re just hoping I give you an actionable piece of info. If you wanna quit that nasty job of yours and think you might be able to do it if you learn about this online marketing deal. And if you’re a newbie, you know how hard it is to start an internet business and make money online (really, don’t kid yourself).
Then how great it’ll be if you have a step-by-step blueprint system that could guide you, have me work with you together until your real business is up and ready to take orders? Yes, you do need to spend time learn, but the GOOD NEWS is, once you’ve passed certain stage, everything would be easy for you.
It’s all about your own choice; about find a Hot Niche that you passionate and gets it started and it is all about understand your customers, in the other words, your target market.
The big guys have always put a lot of effort (and money) into researching their customer base. They have entire departments charged with discovering the demographics of and the dynamics of their target market.
You can do the same, visit (even become a member of) the most active forums, blogs and social communities that relate to your niche topic, find people who buy lots of stuff over and over, and preferably in larger dollar amounts.
By doing that, you’ve got to locate people who are already used to spending money, so it’s not that huge of a challenge to get your share of the pie, people who are really passionate about things tend to spend a lot of money on them.
Then you got to get them on your Email List. I know this may be a stretch of the imagination. But it’s HARDER than nails to sell to people who you can’t send promotions to. Also it will cost you more to print and mail your letters to your target market, but with emails, it costs very little.
When you do it, remember this – it doesn’t matter if you have a zillion people on a list, if they don’t Buy from you, then they are NOT in your target market. What you need is you need a list of people, who are in the market to BUY. In the other words, if you got a list and you’re sending out emails and not making any sales, the people probably aren’t in the market for what you’re selling.
After that, send out emails that give people a compelling reason to give you money in the next 72 hours. You know you don’t make sales by NOT sending emails.
My belief is you need to mix in value with those emails to keep people on your list. That’s why it’s nice to choose a niche and target market you have a passion for because it makes it easier when you write theses content-rich emails.
But if you have no passions, then you know, you just gotta suck it up and find a market you won’t mind creating content for. And if you can’t do that, you’ll need to outsource it.
The single most effective, simple, practical, doable way to get marketing your stuff and get sales online is to get people on an email list and send them emails.
See, you have a very simple choice today.
Till next time – Happy sharing 
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